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Artemis II Agenda Keeps Moon-Bound Crew Busy

With the launch of Artemis II from Cape Canaveral potentially just weeks away, NASA has been releasing a steady stream of information about the mission through their official site and …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 866: BreezyBox And Embedded Compilers

This week Jonathan chats with Valentyn Danylchuk about BreezyBox — an interactive shell and toolkit that provides various tools and a compiler on an ESP32 microcontroller. What was the inspiration …read more

Hackaday Europe Tickets On Sale Now, CFP Extended

Hackaday Europe is approaching, and we’re putting tickets on sale now. “But wait, you haven’t selected the talks yet!” we hear you saying. Indeed! And that’s why we discount the …read more

The Rise And Fall Of Free Dial Up Internet

In the early days of the Internet, having a high-speed IP connection in your home or even a small business was, if not impossible, certainly a rarity. Connecting to a …read more

Hacking The System In A Moral Panic: We Need To Talk

It seems that for as long as there have been readily available 3D printers, there have been moral panics about their being used to print firearms. The latest surrounds a …read more

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  • Arduino Code? On My 8051? It’s More Likely Than You Think

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    By Tyler August | March 22, 2026

    The 8051 was an 8-bit Harvard-architecture microcontroller first put out by Intel in 1980.  They’ve since discontinued that line, but it lives on in the low-cost STC8 family of chips, …read more

  • Building A $50 SDR With 20 MHz Bandwidth

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    By Aaron Beckendorf | March 22, 2026

    Although the RTL-SDR is cheap, accessible, and capable enough for many projects, it does have some important limitations. In particular, its bandwidth is limited to about 3.2 MHz, and the …read more

  • How A Belkin USB Charger Pulls Off A 3 Milliwatt Standby Usage

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    By Maya Posch | March 22, 2026

    A well-known property of wall warts like power bricks and USB chargers is that they always consume some amount of power even when there’s no connected device drawing power from …read more

  • An Electric Jellyfish For Androids

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    By Elliot Williams | March 21, 2026

    We have to admit, we didn’t know that we wanted a desktop electric jellyfish until seeing [likeablob]’s Denki-Kurage, but it’s one of those projects that just fills a need so …read more

  • Analog Video From An 8-Bit Microcontroller

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    By Bryan Cockfield | March 21, 2026

    Although the CRT has largely disappeared from our everyday lives, there was a decades-long timeframe when this was effectively the only display available. It’s an analog display for an analog …read more

  • Reviving A Cursed Sun SPARCstation IPX

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    By Maya Posch | March 21, 2026

    The best part about retro computing is the idea that you’ll save some poor system from being scrapped and revive it to a working state, at which point you can …read more

  • ESP32: When Is A P4 A P4, But Not The P4 You Thought It Was

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    By Jenny List | March 21, 2026

    We’re used to electronic parts of the same type staying predictably the same, sometimes over many years. An early Z80 from the mid 1970s can be exchanged with one from …read more

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